I was at the Park Hill Caucus in Denver. Our precinct also had about 125 present. Fire codes be damned there, as we fit the whole bunch of us in a single classroom. Isn't classroom size an issue this election?!
Had to leave early to get my girls to bed, but did manage to see that Obama got all 8 of our assembly delegates.
JaFi
· 1 year ago
My precinct had 70 people. After Edwards and uncommitted failed to make threshold the vote ended with 55 Obama, 15 Clinton. Of the 15, 4 were men, 3 were young men in their 20's. Of the 11 women only 1 was under 40. The 55 for Obama were heavily young men under 30 with a sprinkling of men and women in older age groups. You could definitely see the results of the Obama campaign at CU.
I was disappointed to see a trend continue of the men speaking to support Obama via criticizing Clinton. It will be interesting to see what happens at the county caucus in Longmont.
Kimm
· 1 year ago
Sounds like Colorado was very involved all over. My father called from Telluride to say that where they usually had 10 or so at their caucus, they saw 125 last night. It sounded noisy. Oh - and everyone went Obama.
Mike Galloy
· 1 year ago
My Lafayette precinct had 39 people present (maybe half under 30). Clinton got 1 delegate (by one vote), Obama the other 3.
For what it's worth, the trend I saw was "men in suits" supporting Clinton and "people in jeans" supporting Obama. I wish I could support Obama, I like the energy he (and his supporters) bring. I wanted to hear arguments that would sway me to either candidate, but nothing persuaded me.
Fitz-Gerald stopped by and spoke a few minutes. Maybe that is why she dominated the voting, but I wanted to see Polis do better.
Jil Cohen
· 1 year ago
I was at Boulder High for Caucus last night. It was a total cluster and chaotic and unorganized, but I'm still glad I went. My precinct had 110 people and 85% voted for Obama. Polis won the majority of the congressional vote, but there were a lot of undecideds too, so 3 of the 5 delegates for the county assembly are undecided, but the other two were for Polis...
Andrew Hyde
· 1 year ago
@Mike Galloy Joan was in the District? I still have yet to ever see her in Boulder.
That includes working as a fulltime organizer at the Boulder County Dems in '04.
Mike Galloy
· 1 year ago
@Andrew Yes, she was there and said she had been in Broomfield earlier (she said 2500 people at the caucus there).
Ryan
· 1 year ago
I wanted to be there last night! I had a physics test at CU - and not one person at the University gave a damn. The physics professor gave me an outright no for a makeup, the undergrad program admin gave me a no. The OMBUDS office gave me a no. So much for the right to vote... I'm glad to see people standing up and taking part! Keep it up bTown!
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Had to leave early to get my girls to bed, but did manage to see that Obama got all 8 of our assembly delegates.
I was disappointed to see a trend continue of the men speaking to support Obama via criticizing Clinton. It will be interesting to see what happens at the county caucus in Longmont.
For what it's worth, the trend I saw was "men in suits" supporting Clinton and "people in jeans" supporting Obama. I wish I could support Obama, I like the energy he (and his supporters) bring. I wanted to hear arguments that would sway me to either candidate, but nothing persuaded me.
Fitz-Gerald stopped by and spoke a few minutes. Maybe that is why she dominated the voting, but I wanted to see Polis do better.
That includes working as a fulltime organizer at the Boulder County Dems in '04.